In the end, this is the source of most anger. People can’t bear the idea of a relentlessly powerful enemy.
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The 99.9% survivable virus is a “relentlessly powerful enemy?”
No Tyrants like the Trudeau and other Marxist dictators are the powerful enemy.
Your logic is flawed with all those boosters. Poor chap.
That is the ostensible logic of those so heavily invested in the "event" as to accept a website's "data" or reject the same website's "data" when it is convenient for their argument. You identify the argument above. A survivable virus is -- insert rhetoric here....
Posted herein from a comment on another thread with sourced data, for your consideration. -----------------------
---- Washington Post says, "Wednesday, Hong Kong recorded 4,285 new infections, and 7,000 preliminary cases. Experts say this number underestimates the severity, as positive results from rapid antigen tests are not officially recognized, and other people probably are skipping tests."
But "Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China." Therefore "Hong Kong reported" is "China reported." But that's validated only by a Twitter post in the WaPo article, which doesn't show such numbers. Perhaps an "official source" can assist?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
As of 16 February, 2022, "officially" Confirmed Cases 126,374 Deaths 4,860
( 4,860 JHU-official deaths / 126,374 JHU-official cases ) x 100 = 3.845 % case fatality ratio.
But interesting and officially, if the "official" sources are to be accepted....
( 4,860 JHU-official deaths / 1,448,296,581 population of China which includes Hong Kong ) x 100 = 0.000335 % mortality rate, or death rate.
"Officially," WaPo while writing "Coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise" the article cites mentions "4,285 new infections, and 7,000 preliminary cases" yet reports NO deaths. Interesting reporting, one might think, A deadly "event" in which "deaths continue to rise" but no number is detailed.
Such a high CFR and such a minuscule mortality rate. One might conclude the "official" narrative is false. WaPo doesn't notice.
You write, " 'The problem; per WaPo is that Hong Kong isn't sufficiently tyrannical." The WaPo piece ends, "Vaccinations work, and they are the only long-term solution." This is marketing, in the guise of reporting.
The long-term solution is the collapse of the Communist Party and its allies spread out across the West, many in Washington.
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Dear HypatiaTaught, here is the irony of the post above and its JHU "data" when related to the rhetorically "relentlessly powerful enemy" in a thread about worldometers' "data."
China, as of today, 17 February 2022, STILL lists China's total worldometers-reported Covid deaths as 4,636, and as the 121st nation in the "data" declaring the US as number 1. Less deaths than the Johns Hopkins "trustworthy" data.
Reference: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
There is indeed a "relentlessly powerful enemy." It is not the Covid-19 virus.
Best wishes.
Roughly 25% more 65+ people in the US died last year than in a pre Covid year. This contributed to about 5 months loss of life expectancy — and that is for lower ages. That effect increases as days pass with excess 65+ deaths.
Nothing that has been tried to stop this has worked. How is this not relentlessly powerful?